Most of us Google ourselves, survey finds fonte: edition.cnn.com
Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we're searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn't even know we were looking for.

You Can Try Picplz Soon, But Only On Android fonte: techcrunch.com
New online photo and location service Picplz, being developed by imeem execs Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg, is still far from being fully baked. But people who are determined to get an early look at the new service will soon have a way to do so – if they have an Android phone.

FarmVille and Mafia Wars coming to Yahoo fonte: edition.cnn.com
Fresh off a deal that will keep 'FarmVille," "Mafia Wars" and other popular Zynga titles on Facebook for at least the next five years, the company has inked a partnership with Yahoo to bring its social games to the Internet giant's massive userbase.

Yahoo Acquires Koprol, a Location-Based Social Network fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
Yahoo announced last night it has acquired Koprol, an Indonesian mobile location-based service. With Koprol, which launched last year, users are able to see where their friends are and what they're doing in real-time. Like Foursquare here in the U.S., Koprol lets people check in when they arrive at a particular location and then share tips, reviews, photos or other messages with nearby users.

McAfee Buys Trust Digital Mobile Security fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
McAfee, which has nearly $2 billion per year in sales, is hoping the acquisition of Trust Digital will allow it to present a total security loop, from endpoint, McAfee's speciality, through a company's smartphones, and back again.

Need a Program Guide for the Real-Time Web? Try Live Matrix fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
The Web is no longer static pages of text and still images. It's alive with tweets, tweetups, live video conferences, uStreams, live-blogged product launches, webinars, live auctions, virtual world meetups and events, time-limited sales and contests, live audio and video podcast recordings, live chats, and more. And it's all happening in real-time. If you happen to be online during one of these events, then you're a part of the action, a part of the now-ness of the new Web. But if you log off for a minute (gasp!), you could miss it all.

Salzburg: An Austrian symphony fonte: edition.cnn.com
Salzburg is forever smiling to the tunes of Mozart and "The Sound of Music." Thanks to its charming old town, splendid Baroque churches, and one of Europe's largest medieval fortresses, Salzburg feels designed to keep its visitors happy.

The Machines That Ate the Market fonte: www.businessweek.com
Once upon a time, human beings oversaw the trading of stocks. They've been replaced by a complex system of computers that can produce a scary new kind of mechanized panic. An investigation into the crash of May 6

EFF: Your Browser Has a Fingerprint fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published results from a study of nearly half a million website visitors' browsers and concluded that the settings configurations exposed to sites we visit are close enough to unique to identify repeat visitors with a high degree of accuracy even if cookies are deleted.

Forget Emails, MicroMobs Takes Group Messaging Out of Your Inbox fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
If Twitter, Facebook, email and traditional forums just don't meet your needs, then a new combination of all of these might suit your fancy. Micromobs, a group messaging application that launched into public beta yesterday, approaches group communication in a way that lets users organize what they read and what they write according to social groups and topical categorization.

Business Plan Competitions: Valuable Tool or Waste of Time? fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
Entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank authored a blog this morning that expressed his opinion that business plan competitions are useless to startup culture and should be scrapped for business model competitions.

Five Sources for Early Stage Funding fonte: www.readwriteweb.com
Having enough money is crucial for the success of a startup, and insufficient funding is one of the top reasons why new businesses fail.